HPR 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Lewis Mumford, Psychoacoustics, Langdon Winner
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Philosopher langdon winner 2 categories of politics of technology. When the invention/design/technical device becomes a way of settling an issue in the. Originated as an attempt to solve the problem of exchangeable formats across segments of the media industry (826) political affairs community. Media technology designed to hold other media technologies. Designed to anticipate how its listeners perceive music and to perceive it for them (828) Patrick burkart and tom mccourt (2004) argue, digital rights management is hampered by vast incompatibilities across software and hardware and an industry climate hostile to a shared standard. In other words, it is probably easier to install a gnutella client and acquire illegal files than it is to manage two separate mp3 collections and two separate playback programs (829-830) Use-value, first identified by john locke (1692) and elaborated by karl marx and others, is a perspective on value which treats commodities in terms of their actual utility.
